Scala Tutorials
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SHOW HN2026
81points
41comments
#835of 4,366 in 2026
Top 20%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters are glad to see a Scala learning resource
From 3 comments
Very cool, I love Scala and am quite sad that it isn't getting the interest and popularity it should.
eviluncle on HNVery nice!
noelwelsh on HNBeautiful. Thank you! =)
otobrglez on HN
Objections
Commenters say Scala lost adoption due to community, build times and tooling
From 3 comments
My impression is that, rightly or wrongly, it developed a bit of a negative reputation in various ways - too esoteric, slow builds, toxic community, etc. - so people stayed away…
wk_end on HNI'm pretty sure most companies don't care nor are aware about the community drama. Arguably Rust is worse, and it doesn't impact its uptake. Scala was sold through Akka and…
hocuspocus on HNHaving used Scala3 in anger for a couple years its just a badly designed language with bad tooling, a bad standard library [1], and small under-resourced and oddly insular…
swampdeer on HN
Kotlin and Java displaced Scala for many teams
From 3 comments
Kotlin seems to have eaten Scala's lunch, for many organizations in the "JVM-but-not-Java" camp. Also, non-backwards-compatible language changes fragmented the Scala ecosystem.…
wavemode on HNI try to keep track of teams moving away from Scala at my company and among my friends and acquaintances, and I know a lot of key people in the community. Scala to Kotlin stories…
hocuspocus on HNNo Java teams at my company have moved to Kotlin. There’s a is a shift of Scala -> Java, I think many people are scared of adopting a guest language again and modern Java with…
vips7L on HN
Questions
Why has Scala lost traction compared to Clojure and others
From 1 comment
I used to be very fond of Scala 10-15 years ago. I also had to move on for professional reasons and haven't kept up for a long time. I am very surprised that there is not much…
sunshine-o on HN
Alternatives named
Scastie
From 1 comment
This is very cool, I've never heard of Scastie, I'll need to take a closer look at that. I created a similar platform for Python (actually submitted to HN earlier today:…
camdenreslink on HN